“These shoes mean to me the ability to inhabit my gender. I, and this complex gender of mine, belong everywhere.” Gender, complex gender, representation, bookstores, long distance love and… whole-cut Venetian loafers? Naturally, when Leela...

Making space to find- and create- beauty where we need and want it. Cole Arthur Riley: https://colearthurriley.com/ The type of camera that Leela carried in zir pocket in Chicago: http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Canon_MC Transcript and notes: https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/something-beautiful

“We don’t have reentry protocols, because we’re not supposed to need them. We’re supposed to magically stay in touch just the right amount.” They didn’t not text you back because they hate you. More likely,...

“what I’ve noticed about myself is that, I have to realize that I would like it to be different ,that something bugs me. I have to realize that something doesn’t feel okay before I can...

“You have choices. But the first, most important choice, is to celebrate who and how you are as an intensive.” As an intensive, your phasic work cycles- and perhaps your phasic chaos cycles- are part...

A poem, a meditation, a gift: “In the face of the world being difficult, and impossible, and glorious, over and over again. In the face of destruction and creation. In the face of hope, and...

Sometimes, almost always, some version of the solution has already been invented. What are we going to remember that we already know how to do? Let us take a mental tour of the Terrible Patents...

“If you think of depression as something that’s kind of like the ocean, that comes up in waves. Sometimes you can float on top of it, and it’s okay. Sometimes it’ll try and drown you…....

Intensives go like hell and then rest like the dead. Sometimes we go like hell and then… just stop. Let’s talk about that. The Nap Ministry: https://thenapministry.wordpress.com/ Madeline Pendleton: https://www.tiktok.com/@madeline_pendleton Transcript and notes: https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/intensive-stop Recorded...

“…So I listened to a podcast this morning and oh my god, mostly, I’m just here to tell you to go listen to that other podcast. That other podcast is called Man Enough, which is...